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Restart of East Millinocket mill delayed as firms clash on electricity agreement

2 hours ago EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Negotiations between two companies over electricity sales that would help restart a local paper mill have devolved into finger-pointing and delayed …

Wednesday's Sebasticook River rage by a mobile home on Water Street, where residents of a mobile home park were temporarily evacuated.

Rising waters, ice jams create dangerous conditions around Maine, claim one life

34 mins ago FORT KENT, Maine — Runoff from melting snow, rain and ice jams created dangerous conditions around the state Wednesday as most of Maine remained under …

Caswell man dies after falling into culvert on flooded road

A resident at the Ellen M. Leach Memorial Home holds a handful of plastic Easter eggs during the second annual Easter Egg Hunt at the retirement home in Brewer on Tuesday.

Never too old to hunt for Easter eggs

University of Maine chemistry student Bryer Sousa works in the lab with Barbara Stewart, a UMaine chemistry professor.

Veazie police officer lauded for saving UMaine student’s life

Maine Legislature sends to ‘amenable’ LePage a bill to broaden access to overdose antidote

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Amid budget shortfall, University of Maine System administrator received $40,000 raise this year

A Portland man's car was destroyed in a fire Wednesday morning on Interstate 95 in Pittsfield, according to police.

Portland man escapes injury after car catches fire on I-95

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Bucksport selects ‘enthusiastic’ Naples administrator as new town manager

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Senate upholds LePage veto of solar energy bill

People fill out information forms at the Dexter Town office in January.

Shoe manufacturing revival group in Dexter now seeking $1.3 million in funding

Camden schools to keep custodians

10 mins ago CAMDEN, Maine — The Camden-Rockport school system will retain its …

A Southwest passenger jet sits at a terminal at Portland International Jetport recently.

Despite frigid winter, Portland jetport traffic rises in March

This tractor-trailer loaded with potatoes went off I-95 in Carmel late Tuesday night and struck several trees before coming to a rest in the median.

Driver cited after tractor-trailer goes off I-95

University of Maine at Fort Kent has plan to cut budget by $1.8 million

Police find Appleton woman dead, husband in distress

APPLETON, Maine — A 60-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday …

Fort Kent-area administrators look to cut $1.8 million from school budget

FORT KENT, Maine — In order to meet $1.8 million …

STATE & CAPITOL (blog)

New poll shows LePage with slim lead, but governor’s race still a dead heat

Earlier this morning, the Pan Atlantic SMS Group — a …

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Never too old to hunt for Easter eggs

Monson No. 4 takes her last runs on Saturday at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum on Fore Street in Portland. The locomotive, built in 1918, needs a new boiler and museum officials don't know when it might be back in service.

Rail enthusiasts in Portland say goodbye to Monson No. 4

A geranium blossoms at Ledgewood Gardens and Greenhouses in Orrington on Tuesday.

Greenhouse owners ready to help Mainers forget winter, embrace spring

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1-minute hike: Old Pond Railway Trail in Hancock

Athletics, study and work, a squeeze play for student athletes

Former coach credits his wife with his well-being

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Opinion

Gary Gonyar, principal of William S. Cohen School in Bangor, pictured in March, discusses his school’s upcoming transition to a new standardized test.

EDITORIALS

Teachers’ union call for standardized test moratorium is ill-timed, ill-conceived

The union that represents most of Maine’s 15,000 public school teachers is tempering its support for the Common Core state standards that Maine schools have …

Sports

Former Maine men’s hockey coach Whitehead leads Kimball Union Academy to title

Tim Whitehead made a smooth and successful transition to coaching at the prep school level. Whitehead, who was fired after 12 years as the head …

Health

Katie Solman (left) and her mother, Kristi Solman, both of Bangor, say Katie has experienced fewer epileptic seizures since she began taking medical marijuana in September. The Solmans joined other patients, parents and activists on Tuesday to call on President Barack Obama to remove medical marijuana from the list of scheduled drugs.

Maine patients, parents, activists call on Obama to remove medical marijuana from list of scheduled drugs

FALMOUTH, Maine — Three times each day, 19-year-old Katie Solman of Bangor adds drops of a medical marijuana tincture into a cup of juice or …

Business

Shoe manufacturing revival group in Dexter now seeking $1.3 million in funding

DEXTER, Maine — They have the desire, location, a ready pool of workers and a product logo. They even have companies “definitely interested” in doing …

Living

‘We were pretty damn good songwriters’ says Mike Mills of R.E.M. in advance of Record Store Day visit to Scarborough

Mike Mills, bass player, songwriter and key vocal harmonizer for R.E.M. will visit Maine this weekend for Record Store Day. Mills will come to the …

Outdoors

Lucas St. Clair steers a square stern canoe on the East Branch of the Penobscot River into an area where Elliotsville Plantation Inc. has opened 40,000 acres to hunting and other recreational use.

St. Clair pitches national park, invites crowd to use Katahdin Woods & Waters Recreation Area

BANGOR, Maine — Just days after the state Legislature killed a bill that could have complicated his goal of establishing a national park in northern …

Food

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Fresh pineapple: Inexpensive and in season

As Fortune family legend goes, when my mother was pregnant with me, she craved pineapple like mad. Personally, knowing my mother’s penchant for pineapple in …